Unable to update quotes

[Ryan Claycamp]

On Sun, 27 Jul 2008 at 1047 -0400, David Reiser wrote:
>
> On Jul 26, 2008, at 8:45 AM, Ryan Claycamp wrote:
>
>> I haven't been able to get new quotes for most of my securities since
>> 11 July.  When I open the Price Editor window and run Get Quotes, I
>> get a screen with "Unable to retrieve quotes for these items: [list]
>> Continue using only the good quotes?" I have a fund from the Thrift
>> Savings Plan and it updates fine.
>>
>> The funds in question all use USA as a price source.  When I run
>> 'gnc-fq-dump usa KO' the data appears, but the date is 00/00/2000.
>> Did something change at one of the price sources after 11 July?
>> Anyone else having this problem?  What other tests should I run?
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Ryan
>
> It looks like yahoo usa changed their date/time request behavior similar 
> to what they did in Europe earlier this year. It's really a  
> finance-quote issue. If you add "d1" between "l1" and "c1" in the  
> @FIELD_ENCODING  definition in  Finance/Quote/Yahoo/Base.pm in your perl 
> tree, it will work.
>

Thanks for the lead Dave.  My Base.pm already had a d1 between l1 and
c1, it was l1 d1 t1 c1.  After some searching on the Finance:Quote
mailing list, specifically this message
<http://sourceforge.net/forum/forum.php?thread_id=1731500&forum_id=12832>,
I was able to get it working.  Now in Base.pm, @FIELDS is qw/symbol
name last time date .../; and @FIELD_ENCODING is qw/s n l1 t1 d1 c1
.../;  Gnc-fq-dump reports a date and Get Quotes doesn't report an
error and grabs new date.

Thanks,
Ryan
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